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Environment

  • Street art mural honoring Flaco, an Eurasian Eagle-Owl, in New York's Freemans Alley<br>A spray-painted mural of Flaco, an Eurasian Eagle-Owl who died just over a year after his escape from a vandalized Central Park Zoo enclosure, by Colombian artist Calicho Arevalo, is seen in the street art destination of Freemans Alley in New York City, U.S. February 25, 2024. REUTERS/Bing Guan NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES

    ‘Long live the king’: the artists and tattooists turning Flaco and P-22 into city icons

    The biggest cities in the US are mourning animals who fostered a rare sense of connection. Art is preserving their legacies
  • Workers install solar panels on a rooftop

    Biden marks Earth Day with $7bn ‘solar for all’ investment amid week of climate action

  • people hold signs calling attention to climate change

    Students at US universities file legal complaints over fossil fuel investments

  • composite image of a university campus with a tower lined up next to an oil refinery spewing smoke

    Louisiana’s flagship university lets oil firms influence research – for a price

  • rainbow over a river

    Biden administration moves to restrict oil and gas leases on 13m acres in Alaska

  • A researcher pours a PFAS water sample into a container

    EPA moves to make US polluters pay for cleanup of two forever chemicals

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CO2 tracker

  • The most important number of the climate crisis:

    422.1

    atmospheric CO2 in parts per million, 22 April 2024

    72.1

    above safe level,
    passed 1990

    24.9

    increase in past
    10 years

    280300320340360380400420 parts per million1960199020142024Safe level: 350ppmLatest: 422.1ppm

Latest news

  • Dr Sarah Benn leaving the medical tribunal service in Manchester.

    Retired UK GP suspended for five months after climate protests

  • Portrait photograph of UK climate activist Trudi Warner

    ‘I felt this was an abuse of power’: the climate activist who took on the law and won

    Trudi Warner on a year being pursued by government lawyers determined to prosecute her over a jurors’ rights protest
  • Protesters walk down a street carrying a banner reading 'End the plastic era' with government buildings behind them

    World must come together to tackle plastic pollution, says chair of UN talks

    Ecuadorian ambassador to the UK is hopeful impasse can be overcome at treaty negotiations in Ottawa
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Big oil uncovered

  • An employee handles plastic bottles at a facility

    Plastic-production emissions could triple to one-fifth of Earth’s carbon budget – report

  • ‘Basically it’s a propaganda campaign.’

    How to spot five of the fossil fuel industry’s biggest disinformation tactics

  • Protesters gather in front of the American Gas Association

    Protesters slam gas group’s use of customers’ money to thwart climate efforts

  • Factory buildings with gas coming out from top

    World’s largest oil companies ‘way off track’ on emissions goals, report finds

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America's dirty divide

  • Men standing on a platform lowering a wall panel

    ‘A roof over our people’s heads’: the Indigenous US tribe building hempcrete homes

  • <strong>Rio Costilla NM Comanche Point in the Valle Vidal Geriant Smith</strong>

    New Mexico’s rivers are most threatened waterways in US, report finds

  • triptych crab

    In Maryland, female migrant laborers face an uncertain future as sea levels rise – photo essay

  • On a sunny urban street, a person rides a scooter past two storefronts, one with a red sign that says 'Checks Cashed' and the other with a blue sign that says 'Payday Loans'.

    Climate change driving demand for predatory loans, research shows

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Our unequal earth

  • Collage of vegetables, fruits, money and a scale.

    We found unhealthy pesticide levels in 20% of US produce – here’s what you need to know

  • A collage of vegetables, fruits and a worker with a mask spraying them.

    Blueberries and bell peppers: six fruits and vegetables with the most pesticide risk

  • bell peppers

    Kale, watermelon and even some organic foods pose high pesticide risk, analysis finds

  • A collage of a fruit under an open faucet.

    Can you wash pesticides off your food? A guide to eating fewer toxic chemicals

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The age of extinction

  • A wooden bench in the Sonian Forest in Belgium.

    ‘You can’t love something that isn’t there’: readers on how the sounds of nature have changed around them

  • FEB 2024 - LONDON: Researchers are testing how to listen to the sounds soil makes. Listening out for like worms/ants. Pictured; Dr Carlos Abrahams listening to the soil. (Photography by Graeme Robertson / The Guardian )

    Crunching worms, squeaking voles, drumming ants: how scientists are learning to eavesdrop on the sounds of soil

    More than 50% of the planet’s species live in the in the earth below our feet, but only a fraction have been identified – so far
  • A kākā at Zealandia ecosanctuary, Wellington, New Zealand.

    Penguins in the pond, kiwi in the back yard: how a city brought back its birds

    As nature falls silent in most cities around the world, New Zealand’s capital has been transformed by the sound of native birds returning to the dawn chorus
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Seascape

  • A marine iguana swimming in the sea

    ‘Currents bring life – and plastics’: animals of Galápagos live amid mounds of waste

  • Steve Backshall, the naturalist, scuba dives on the reefs of the Maldives for the BBC’s Our Changing Planet.

    Scientists’ experiment is ‘beacon of hope’ for coral reefs on brink of global collapse

    • A display of fresh fish of different sizes lying on a bed of ice

      Goodbye cod, hello herring: why putting a different fish on your dish will help the planet

    • Conservation officials shipped Emerson away ‘far from human habitation’ for his peace.

      Elephant seal makes ‘epic’ trek back after Canadian officials relocate him

    • Navagio beach in Zakynthos, Greece

      Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine parks

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Opinion

  • Graham Readfearn

    Dutton’s plan to save Australia with nuclear comes undone when you look between the brushstrokes

    Graham Readfearn
  • Adam Morton

    Albanese’s promised clean economy act has been a long time coming but it’s the right place to start

    Adam Morton
  • Adam Morton

    A big week for climate policy in Australia: what happened and what to make of it

    Adam Morton
  • Adam Morton

    Forget nuclear: would Peter Dutton oppose a plan to cut bills and address the climate crisis?

    Adam Morton
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Multimedia

  • Drone video shows Western Australia’s forests dying in heat and drought – video

  • A jackal surrounded by doves leaps for a meal, South Africa

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: a hungry jackal, a cat with webbed feet and a cheeky badger

    The best of this week’s wildlife photographs from around the world
  • Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event

    0:47

    Aerial video shows mass coral bleaching on Great Barrier Reef amid global heat stress event – video

    Scientists have recorded widespread bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef as global heating creates a fourth planet-wide bleaching event
  • A seven-month-old cheetah in the back of an SUV hisses at a rescuer’s outstretched hand, western Somaliland, 2020

    Exploring why we photograph animals – in pictures

  • Weak government climate policies violate fundamental human rights, the European court of human rights has ruled

    0:58

    'Only the beginning': Greta Thunberg reacts to court ruling on Swiss climate inaction – video

  • Heavy rains inundate roads and rivers near Charleville in rural south-west Queensland

    0:53

    Drone footage captures flooded bridges and roads in rural parts of south-west Queensland – video

  • Polar bears looking in from outside with their noses pressed up against the glass

    Week in wildlife – in pictures: nosy polar bears, a waving seal and blue-footed boobies

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